Perry for President: If It's a Bad Idea, You Know It's Ours

Look, I can certainly do without the remaining 8,645 scheduled Republican presidential debates, and I'm fairly sure the nation would survive without them. But, if you're going to be president, you can't stop doing something, as Governor Goodhair would prefer, simply because you happen to blow goats at it. That's not the way the office works. If it were, Reagan would have quit in '82. If it were, Perry himself would leave the office of governor in Texas and take up a filling station on Route 6 near Boonesville.

Added Rick Perry Bonus: I was watching the Frontlinedocumentary on the appalling case of Cameron Todd Willingham, whom Perry put to death for murder by arson based on trash science not far removed from bleeding people with leeches. Apparently, toward the end, Willingham believed his wife had sold him out and, while in the death chamber, he told her that he fucking hoped she'd rot in hell, or something to that effect. Confronted with the fact that the best scientific evidence exonerated Willingham of the crime, and that he'd rigged an investigation into the case by firing some people and installing his cronies, Perry says to a gaggle of reporters that Willingham was a "bad man" because, at the end, he directed at his wife "an obscenity-laced triad."

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